We removed our reactive support in Spring Boot. This is going to be completely re-written in a separate branch, and will be released later. Reactive applications will be a new type of application (like we already have monolith or microservice), which will be used only when this technology makes sense.

Documentation

We have started to merge the JHipster v5 documentation on the main website:

It is not yet complete, please don’t hesitate to help if you find issues

What’s missing

We’re mostly waiting for Spring Cloud to have a stable release compatible with Spring Boot 2.0.0. This is why this release depends on the Maven Spring milestone repository. If you are not using microservices (and so not using Spring Cloud), you’re not concerned by this.

End-to-end tests with React using Protractor. You can follow the issue here: #7469

How to install

This is the first time we use a BETA tag on NPM, so please note this is new for everyone!

How you can help

We are expecting to do a stable release in the next 2 weeks, but please remember that most people on the team are doing this on their free time. So if your company is benefiting from JHipster, you can also help by telling your boss to sponsor the project - that money will be used to reward contributors, and help us to release even better versions, more quickly!

Do you want to know more?

All those new features will be showcased at the upcoming JHipster Conf where most of the core development team will present their work. Join us in Paris on June, 21st!